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nomonomo
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Date: June 27, 2016 07:36PM
Just some random thoughts...
I've noticed the pile-on that occurs any time you call a Mormon out on Facebook. Their friends-of-friends, people you don't know and have never met, will start chiming in about how wrong you are, how "christlike" the person you're "attacking" is, yada yada yada. They circle their wagons to "protect" each other and start vomiting up the lies. It's a cult, after all, and about conformity, not truth.
A tangential thought related to the above, they're all also watching each other, and everything they post. When my niece was a Freshman at BYU, any time she "emoted" on Facebook, all the ladies in her network would crow about how "smart" she was. But if she posted something truly objective, or open minded, there's a conspicuous absence of "likes" and/or comments. For example, she posted once that she not only visited, but enjoyed visiting, a different church one Sunday, and the only likes were from non-Mo family members. This, for someone who usually gets between 50 and 100 likes for ANYTHING "right" that she posts. Everybody knows that the only reason to attend a non-mo church is to criticize it afterwards, right?
Most of the time they post crap like this ("I can't stand swearing") they are simply trying to draw attention to themselves, and how "good" they are. My TBM SIL goes on and On and ON, all the time, about sleeves and "modesty." Ironically, one of the definitions of modesty is to not draw attention to oneself. So, is it truly modest to yammer on about how "modest" you are? Just more Mormon cog dis...
Also, the vocabulary issues... Good grief. Words are just words. They only have the meaning--good bad or otherwise--and magnitude, that we ascribe to them. So, speaking of meaning and magnitude, is substituting "frickin'" or "flippin'" for the F-word really any different? It's filling the same place in the sentence, serving the same purpose (colorful magnifier), and even starts with the same letter, so you know what it's taking the place of. Literally, for all intents and purposes, the "innocuous" word is serving the exact same purpose as the "bad" word, so it's effectively no different. In usual Mormon fashion, it's much ado about nothing, except if one says "flippin'" enough to be noticed, then one must be REALLY Christlike, right? So, if you say "shut the fetch up," instead of "shut the F___ up," then you might as well just say, "shut the F___ up," or just shut the F___ up (pun intended).
By the way, the cool guy filler words is not just a Mormon thing. I was visiting someone in the hospital recently, and they were watching HGTV non-stop. On one episode of one of the ubiquitous house shows, they were featuring a minister and his wife, and the guy said "shut the front door," in place of "shut the F___ up" so many times that it got to be a little nauseating. It's like saying, "I'm so cool...I have a fill in phrase for 'shut the F___ up' that I can use whenever I'm shocked or surprised!" So, even greater than a filler word is a whole filler phrase, I suppose.
I guess the takeaway is that when Mormon Jesus was turning his nose up at the tax collectors and other sinners, to show how loving he was, he must have said something like "fetch off, mother flippers!" And the pharisees all nodded in approval and told him how "freakin' bad ask" he was. And then they went to the temple to clean toilets.
yeah, that last paragraph is a little tongue-in-cheek. Sorry, couldn't resist demonstrating how preposterous it all is. Somebody, please tell me to shut the front door! ;-)
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/27/2016 09:01PM by nomonomo.